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George Bernard Shaw: Heaven, as conventionally...

George Bernard Shaw: Heaven, as conventionally...

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever...

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George Bernard Shaw: Hell is full...

George Bernard Shaw: Hell is full...

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

Source: Don...

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George Bernard Shaw: If all economists...

George Bernard Shaw: If all economists...

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Source:...

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George Bernard Shaw: I tell you...

George Bernard Shaw: I tell you...

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring...

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George Bernard Shaw: Every doctor will...

George Bernard Shaw: Every doctor will...

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional...

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George Bernard Shaw: Life does not...

George Bernard Shaw: Life does not...

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people...

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George Bernard Shaw: If you go...

George Bernard Shaw: If you go...

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself...

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George Bernard Shaw: There are only...

George Bernard Shaw: There are only...

There are only 2 qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only 2 sorts of people: the efficient and...

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George Bernard Shaw: What is the...

George Bernard Shaw: What is the...

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true...

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George Bernard Shaw: When a prisoner...

George Bernard Shaw: When a prisoner...

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his...

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George Bernard Shaw: What is virtue...

George Bernard Shaw: What is virtue...

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Source: Don Juan, in Man and...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Forward the Light...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Forward the Light...

Forward the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I am a...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I am a...

I am a part of all I have met.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I am shamed...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I am shamed...

I am shamed thro' all my nature to have loved so slight a thing.

Source: Locksley...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: In that world-earthquake,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: In that world-earthquake,...

In that world-earthquake, Waterloo!

Source: Ode on the Death of the Duke of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I wept, `Tho'...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I wept, `Tho'...

I wept, `Tho' I should die, I know
That all about the thorn will blow
In tufts of rosy-tinted...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I do but...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I do but...

I do but sing because I must,
And pipe but as the linnets sing.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Or where the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Or where the...

Or where the kneeling hamlet drains
The chalice of the grapes of God.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O hard, when...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O hard, when...

O hard, when love and duty clash!

Source: The Princess, II, 273
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Nature, red in...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Nature, red in...

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Source: 'In Memoriam'
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson,...

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